how do i change to developer mode on aws lightsail magento?

[RavN]

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I have a quick question for you. how do i change to developer mode on aws lightsail Magento?
would i try it into lightsail connect using ssh?
I have also followed this link:
http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/config-guide/cli/config-cli-subcommands-mode.html

and the commands illustrated does not work on ssh? Please also note that i am using aws cloud 9 for adding my scripts and styles as this is why i need to change to developer mode.

Thank you for your help

[kgerasimov]

You have to obtain SSH credentials.

Once logged in go to magento root folder and run:

php bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer

[Manthan Dave]

You can change developer mode from app/etc/env.php file as well.

you can run this command as well : php bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer

But you must required SSH access with php global environment setup ,so you can run directly commands from your magento 2 root directory.

Right now , might be php environment varriable is not set to global level so you are unable to run commands.

[RavN]

Hey kgerasimov,

thank you for all your help so far.

I got into my root folder by typing in sudo su on my lightsail ssh, but when i typed in:

php bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer

 it didn't work.

came back as "could not open input file: bin/magento"

Am i doing something wrong?

Please advise

Rav

[RavN]

Hey ManthanDave,

thank you for all your help so far.

I got into my root folder by typing in sudo su on my lightsail ssh, but when i typed in:

php bin/magento setup:deploy:mode:set developer

 it didn't work, also i went to my aws cloud 9 for my file tree and found app/etc, but not env.php under etc. 

is there something that i may be missing? 

Thank you

Rav

[Manthan Dave]

You are adding setup before the command , which is wrong.

you need to run below command :

php bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer

what error give , when you run this command ? 

[RavN]

Hey ManthanDave,

it says the same thing could not open input file: Bin/magento.

Thank you for your help i really hope you can help me figure this out.

[Manthan Dave]

Looks like you are not running this command from magento 2 root directory.

give me path from where are you running this command ?

because you need to run this command from magento 2 root directory so.

[RavN]

Hey ManthanDave,

Okay, so i run it from my SSH from AWS LightSail Instance. 

Ityped in sudo su. then root (root@"my-IP":/home/bitnami#) opens up.

I type in "php bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer" and nothing happens.

Should i be doing this through my SSH? or should it be from my file tree where i can enter in code? if so what file path would this go under for me to change developer mode.

Thank you. 

[Manthan Dave · Accepted solution]

No , you have done it correctly , but you are in wrong directory - /home/bitnami

this is /home/bitnami but you need to run this command from your magento2 root directory , where you have installed magento2 in that directory you need to run this command.

so after login to this /home/bitnami change directory by cd command and go to your root directory where you have installed magento2 and then run command